Monte Hale Western (1948 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books

Stories and art by Edmond Good and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte's old enemy, proto-Goth gunslinger The Gravedigger, escapes from prison by faking his own death and sets out for revenge. A calico horse holds the clue to an outlaw gang's hideout, but Monte isn't sure just how. Monte agrees to ride in a friend's rodeo to replace fired Vance and his deadly albino horse Lightning, but Vance isn't happy about that. Plus vintage comics-format ads for RC Cola, Popsicle, and Dubble Bubble. The Grave-Digger's Web; The Rodeo Menace; Disputed Empire; Boisterous Buster; Gray Hawk: Ride the Iron Horse; Gabby Hayes: Gabby's Big Blast; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: When the Work's All Done This Fall; The Mystery of the Calico Horse. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte encounters the most ambitious and offbeat rustling scheme he's ever experienced in his years riding the range: rustling buffalo herds. Old Slick tells his compadres about the time he was an oil doctor; he had to keep the oil well. Imprisoned train robber Caboose Kelly tricks Monte into doing a performance for the prisoners, then captures him and the warden. Plus a cowboy song and a vintage Western-themed ad for View-Master featuring Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and the Cisco Kid. The Buffalo Rustlers; Gabby Hayes Becomes a Master Painter!; The Hoosegow Stampede; Monte Hale Fights Old Devil Dust!; Gray Hawk: Otapi Honor; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Practical Pat; Doctor Quack and Sack; Monte Hale and the Mystery of the Grim God; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: Sweet Betsy from Pike; Ambling Andy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. The Cactus Gang finds a forest of cactus the perfect hideout until they encounter Monte's eccentric pal, Cactus Jack. First-class second-fiddle Gabby Hayes is honored when a rich eccentric commissions a statue of Gabby's horse, but when the notorious outlaw Steele de Base targets the rich guy, Gabby gets in the way. Monte gets a clue to capturing the Dallas Kid when he finds a dropped locket with the picture of a little girl. Plus a cowboy song and a vintage Western-themed ad for View-Master featuring Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and the Cisco Kid. The Cactus Gang Gets Stuck; Gabby Hayes: The Hero's Horse; Gray Hawk: Wings of the Hawk; The Dallas Kid's Last Stand; Slim Pickens: The General Store; Bronko Betsy; Monte Meets His Match. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Edmond Good and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte must escort Anne to her father's frontier fort, through hostile territory and past ill-intentioned mountain men. Deep in the Rocky Mountains, Monte stumbles on a lost fort of Confederate soldiers who refuse to acknowledge the truth about the Civil War. Monte encounters the work of the Catman, a strange feral being who wears a cougar skin and stalks the roads around Pineville. Plus a cowboy song and a vintage ad for Dubble Bubble. Frontier Danger; Gabby Hayes: The Bandits At the Bridge; Gray Hawk: Bound by Pledge; The Last Confederate; The Roper Rides High; Bronko Betsy; Poat the Poet; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: The Railroad Corral; The Not so Sharp Sharpy; Old Slick; The Claws of the Catman. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte meets the Montana Marauders. Legendary sidekick Gabby Hayes tries to tame an untamable horse, unless it tames him first. Monte meets a gunfighter with the mind of a scientist. Plus a cowboy song, a vintage Captain Tootsie Tootsie Roll ad, and a comics-format ad for Carnation featuring another movie cowboy, Rocky Lane. Desert Showdown; Gabby Hayes: Gabby Rides a Nightmare; Gray Hawk: Into the Pit; Barker Barber; The Montana Marauders; Bronko Betsy; Old Slick; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: Dakota Land; Heartbreak Mountain; Old Slick; Six-Gun Professor. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob McCarthy and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. In the midst of a heated election for governor, Monte's old foe The Gravedigger turns up, but who is he gunning for? When Monte guards his old pal Alfalfa Smith's oil-rich land, owlhoots take another tack by masquerading as Alfalfa's long-lost nephew. Monte rides a runaway locomotive into the hidden hideout of The Railroad Kid. Plus a cowboy song, a vintage Captain Tootsie Tootsie Roll ad, and a comics-format ad for Carnation featuring another movie cowboy, Rocky Lane. The Victim of the Past; Gabby Hayes: The Deadly Duel; Gray Hawk: Lobo's Death; The Man Who Wouldn't Be Rich; The Night Riders of the Osage; Rolly and Slim; Old Slick; The Railroad Roundup. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob McCarthy and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. In a multi-part story, Monte must rescue a pal from the inaccessible bandit stronghold known as Outlaw Mesa. Comic relief Gabby Hayes meets lady outlaw Esther, who hates cowboys, but she doesn't know about Gabby's lemonade spiked with "Generosity Juice." Outlaw Mesa; Gabby Hayes: Esther the Nester; Gray Hawk: Trail of the Night Loon!; Chief Gray Matter; Motoring Morgan; Eggbert, the Egg King!; Bronko Betsy; Old Slick; Loco Lew; Casanova Charlie; Pinto Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Monte Hale and Pardner cover photo. The Verse of Death, art by Edmond Good; Monte has to find out the last verse of a song to locate a band of killers. Captive's Return text story featuring Gray Hawk by Dick Kraus. How to make a treasure chest with Scotch Cellophane Tape ad. The Fake Brand, art by Carl Pfeufer; Gabby traces cattle rustlers to the ranch of Bigger Oaff. Monte Hale Battles the Human Fort!, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Edmond Good; Monte uses a swarm of bees to overcome an ironclad outlaw. The Boy Editor of Faro City, script by Bill Woolfolk; Freedom of the press in a town run by gamblers. Captain Video ad with photo of Al Hodge. Monte Hale Tackles the Rodeo Terror!, art by Edmond Good; Baker and Morgan had two black horses and a trick chute; They always switched them so Morgan rode the easy one, and the local rider the killer. 52 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. When cattle barons make war on each other to win the right to supply railway workers, Monte's old enemy The Gravedigger is hired to make things worse. Bumbling hero Gabby Hayes is sent out from Fort Gooseberry to ride for reinforcements before a siege. Wayne Jackson's brothers were famous outlaws, so he's the prime suspect for the Slade City holdup, but Monte's not convinced. Guns of the Gravedigger; Gabby Hayes: Gabby Holds the Fort; Gray Hawk: Quicksand Trap; Hayfever Hal; Boxcar Benny; The Last Jackson; He Aimed for Fame; Monte Hale's Cowboy Songs: The Bad Brahma Bull; Old Slick; Wise Words!; Little Scrapper; The Pistol-Packing Farmer. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. In a multi-part story, a naive military commander from back East threatens to cause a catastrophic war between settlers and the Arapahoe, and Monte must keep the peace. Four-star sidekick Gabby Hayes rents a hot-air balloon from a carnival to keep an eye out for rustlers, but what is he supposed to do once he sees them? Renegade of the Rockies; Gabby Hayes: The Balloonatic; Gray Hawk: Cloudburst Valley; Dance of Doom!; Sorrowful Hollowell; Pete and Pat: A Scene on the Desert; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Passage from Peril! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Monte Hale and Pardner cover photo. View-Master ad with Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Cisco Kid, and Gene Autry. Comic strip ad for Royal Crown Cola. The Owl Creek Holdup!, art by Edmond Good; Coach after coach limped back into town with tales of having been ambushed and robbed on Owl Creek Bridge. Monte Hale Western subscription ad. Forest Ally text story featuring Gray Hawk Story by Dick Kraus. Pinhead and Foodini ad. The Flying Foe, art by Leonard Frank; Gabby Hayes enters a horse race while chasing a fly. The Chuck Wagon Coyote; No one wanted to take the place of the missing cook, but Monte. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. A lawyer in a small Western town thick with outlaws must strap on his guns when the law won't do the trick. A gambler may have made his last bet, unless Monte can outdraw his opponent. A con man puts one over on a small town, but Monte has a trick or two up his own sleeves. Plus vintage comics-format ads for Popsicle and Dubble Bubble. The Fighting Lawyer; Gabby Hayes: The Old Man Comes Back; Gray Hawk: Otapi Silver Mine; Gambler's Showdown; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; The Swindler's Triumph. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte finds himself in a horse race for his life against Ahmed, the Arabian considered the fastest horse on the planet, but Monte's horse Pardner is no three-toed sloth. A reporter suggests that the really dangerous outlaws were in the early days of the West, and then he meets Mad Dog McKee. Grizzled goober Gabby Hayes dresses as Santa for Christmas (in a red union suit), but accidentally picks up an outlaw gang's bag of stolen gold. Plus a vintage comics-format ad from Popsicle for the "Cowboy Boot Ring," a sort of Swiss Army knife in the shape of a boot...but it's a ring. Monte Hale and the Champion; Gabby Hayes: Shooting at Santa; Gray Hawk: Victims of the Kasagi; The Worst of the Badmen; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; The Hard Luck Ranch. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. When Kansas ranchers think Monte has spread the deadly Texas fever to their cattle, they tie him to a bucking bronco by his neck! Monte donates his gun to the traveling exhibit of huckster JP Farnum, which makes him look guilty when Farnum is later murdered and his gun is found. Outlaws think to strike while the sheriff is listening to Gabby's long-winded stories, but get caught in a prank war between Gabby and another goober. Plus vintage ads for Dubble Bubble and RC Cola, and one for Wheaties ("Breakfast of Champions!") featuring Phil Rizzuto of the Yankees. Death from Texas; Gabby Hayes: The Spook Rider; Gray Hawk: Circus Captive; Jackson and Jill; Old Slick; The Curio Caravan. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte tries to find out how executed highwayman Banko Simms has seemingly returned from the grave with revenge on his mind. Figure of fun Gabby Hayes gets into a fight over painting a barn with a young farmhand named Rem Brandt. Long-retired lawman Pop Craig decides to strap on his guns one more time to help Monte find The Outlaws of Bat Cavern. Plus vintage ads for cereal-box prizes, including the "Magic Moving Picture Eye" and Walt Disney mini-comics. Dead Man's Rendezvous; Gabby Hayes: Paint in the Neck; The Outlaws of Bat Cavern; Gray Hawk: Dance of the Wolf; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Rustler's Rockets. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. A goofy-looking traveling minstrel with a banjo turns out to be a dangerous gunslinger. Gray Hawk seeks a tribe that seemingly vanished. No one has been able to master the wild horse called Mr. Dynamite. The Return of the Minstrel Man; Gray Hawk: The Missing Tribe; Rimrock Roundup!; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Vanishing Veal; The Breaking of Mister Dynamite; Marriageable Margie. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Someone has dammed up the Dead River to end a peace treaty between settlers and the Dakota, and Monte wants to find out who did it. Gabby Hayes, in the dictionary next to the word "grizzled," enters the Beard Beauty Contest and the judges are in for a shock. Monte learns about a blackmail scheme and swears to find the owlhoot behind it all. River Menace; Gray Hawk: Forest Pinto; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; The Gully-Hoppers; Druggist Dugger; Gabby Hayes: The Beard Beauty Contest; Hitt and Runn; Our Ancestors ...As It Might Have Happened!; Blackmailer's Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Edmond Good, Mario DeMarco, Martin Filchock, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Cavalry troops still divided over the end of the US Civil War must put aside their differences when Sioux forces attack border settlements. An animal-cruelty activist doesn't want perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes to put horseshoes on his horse. Monte finally tracks down the swift-fingered gang known as Safe-Crackers Unlimited, but they get the drop on him and capture him. Two Flags at Dawn; Gray Hawk: Waterfall of Doom; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Rodeo Gun-Trail; Druggist Dugger; Gabby Hayes: The Unlucky Horseshoes; Safe-Crackers Unlimited. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monty must stop a prison break after convicts manage to smuggle a shipment of Army rifles into Cayungo Penitentiary. Monte is hired to protect a gold train from outlaw Gopher Graham. Forger "Scribble La Forge" fakes a letter convincing sidekick to the stars Gabby Hayes he's lost his job as ranch foreman, so Scribble can forge with impunity. The Killers of Cayungo; Gray Hawk: Trapper's Ambush; Old Slick; Bronko Betsy; Guns Against the Gold Train; Fitch and Chippes; Gabby Hayes Gets Fired; Land Above the Sky. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. White-hooded vigilantes summarily execute anyone who crosses them, and Monte is their next target. Rustlers trick Monte Hayes and a pursuing marshal into thinking that each is actually the rustler, leaving them to get away with the cattle. Gabby Hayes' singing is so bad, outlaws turn themselves in, and other animals join dogs in howling along, even the rabbits. The Vigilante Victim; Old Timer Oldham; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Singing Gunmen; The Marshal Takes a Gunning; Mountain Hide-Out; Shifty and Swifty; The Ends of the Earth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. The thawing of the Platte River reveals the body of a murdered marshal, and Monte sets out to find the rustler who killed him. When farmer Johnny Hayseed is attacked by ranchers, star sidekick Gabby Hayes takes over the farm and arranges some surprises for the bad guys. Monte tracks hooded train robbers who use disease-infected ticks as deterrents to pursuit. The Secret of the River; Secretive Seery; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Pesty Nester; Perdition Fever; Gray Hawk: Feast of the Longbows; Old Slick; Vacation Time; The Too Smart Killer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte faces down the Mexican revolutionary El Leon and his followers, but beautiful gunrunner Carlotta Montez stops him in his tracks. When outlaw steals a fresh batch of Aunt Hester's fudge from the Bar Nothing Ranch, he arouses the ire of both Gabby Hayes and Aunt Hester herself. The range war between cattlemen and farmers comes down to the destruction of the Shanda Valley Dam, a plan that Monte must stop. The Gunrunners of Acatera; Dimwit Diddle; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: Fearless Fudgy; Grubstaker's Bargain; Gray Hawk: Wahita Mercy; Old Slick; The Building of Shanda Dam. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. In a multi-part story, Monte sets out to discover what is so important about the settlement at Wildwood that outlaws want to drive the settlers away from there. But the outlaws will stop at nothing, including a dynamite trap. Aunt Hester gets a ransom note that Gabby Hayes has been kidnapped, but nobody told Gabby. The Unknown Bonanza; Sage-Brush; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Alarming Adventure; Battle at the Cabin; Gray Hawk: Seeds of Friendship; Boarding House Brown; Old Slick; The Secret Is Told. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Monte Hale, Pardner, and Gabby Hayes cover photo. The Curse of Typhoid Valley, art by Edmond Good; No man dared enter Typhoid Valley. P-F Canvas Shoes comic strip ad with Jim Wise (baseball player). Quick on the Draw text story Clement Good. The Chebayo Land Rush, art by Edmond Good; A man's life would be forfeit unless those who had framed him on a murder charge were trapped in the Chebayo Land Rush. Monte Hale subscription ad. The Rodeo Rascal, art by Leonard Frank; Gabby becomes King of the Mesa in a rodeo. Nyoka the Jungle Girl ad. The Rustler's Roundup, art by Edmond Good; After a blizard, half the cattle has scattered south, and Hale and Motley set out to get them back. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte and the townspeople think Peter Jemson is just a crackpot, until they discover the truth about what he calls "the Sea of Flame." Monte is the only one who believes town liar Red Jonas when he says he witnessed a murder. Gabby Hayes also seems to be telling a tall tale, but could he actually have unearthed a gigantic, prehistoric beast? The Sea of Flame; Wesley Cuts the Herd; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: Whipping the Whopper; Old Slick; The Stolen Six-Gun. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. In a multi-part story, outlaw set up a secret murder-for-hire business and terrorize the West. But when Monte takes their trail, he gets caught in a noose-trap. Gabby Hayes takes a new job as a trail guide, but when he sees a wagon train in the path of a Native raid, he has to get to the settlers first. Death Incorporated; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes Hits the Trail; Slow Death; Gray Hawk: Champion of the Forest; Buffalo Bull: The Magnificent Shot; Old Slick; Bare Fisted Final. 32 pages, Full Color Cover price $0.10.

Monte Hale and Gabby Hayes cover photo. Stagecoach Trail, art by Edmond Good; Fighting between the railroad and the stageline. Fleer's Dubble Bubble comic strip ad, art by Ray Thompson. An Important Message From Captain Marvel!; Fight Infantile Paralysis. Death Rigs the Rodeo, art by Edmond Good; Macon's crooked rodeo causes the death of too many good men. End of a Badman text story with Jud Karney by Hank Spector. Bull in a China Shoppe, art by Leonard Frank; When there's a fair damsel in distress, Gabby is always ready to do something about it. Return of the Rangers, art by Edmond Good; Two Texas Rangers on a nocturnal mission, are shot and killed from ambush in a saloon. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Westbrook Wilson and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte tries to find out who is killing buffalo to stir up trouble between Comanches and railroad workers. Monte sets a trap for the Grand Canyon Gully-Hoppers, ex-circus acrobats who have turned to crime, and who can ascend a sheer cliff to their mountain hideout. Gabby Hayes orders a new scout's outfit from a mail-order catalog, but it turns out to be an Eagle Scout's outfit. Horseback Territory; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Good Scout; The Stranger; The Acrobats of Crime; The Tragedy; Old Slick; The Claim Jumpers. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte tracks the brains behind a high-tech prison break and meets the deadly outlaw explosives expert called The Miner. Monte sets out to discover who has diverted a whole river from a settlers encampment and into a rancher's property. Gabby Hayes buys a cat named Bob for Aunt Hester, but it gets mixed up with a bobcat before delivery. The Miner Strikes; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: A Cat's Tale; The Land of Vanishing Waters; Hammer Head; Gray Hawk: Skill of the Squaw; Old Slick; The Gallows That Waited. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte gets trapped in a mine cave-in caused by outlaws who want to steal the mine payroll. Monte suspects that a developer's plan to build a canal from Texas to Chicago is a swindle, and gets trapped in a gas chamber when he tries to prove it. Gabby Hayes invents the bullet-proof vest, but can't figure out how to protect his head or other important parts of his body. Disaster Strikes Unannounced; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: Headless Horseman of the Prairies; Blood of the Renegade; The Great Canal; Gray Hawk: Mountain Getaway; Gun Hints; Jawbone Jeffers: The Mountain Movers. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Monte Hale and Pardner cover photo. Spooky Shots text story by Walter Farmer. Counterfeiter's Holiday, art by Edmond Good; Monte is determined to seek out the counterfeiters and give them a long vacation in jail. The Kindest Man in Town!, art by Edmond Good; Some money from a bank robbery is put into Monte's pocket when asleep, and he is jailed by the sheriff. Tonsorial Twosome! starring Colonel Corn and Jawbones Jeffers. Rustler's Haven, art by Edmond Good; Texas ranchers call Monte for help to catch the two ruthless gang leaders of the rustlers, and in the showdown, he uses a Gatling Gun. The Plot on Rattler's Trail!; A mail clerk is ambushed and robbed by an insurance swindler. Spooky Shots text story by Walter Farmer. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte sets out to find the truth behind the ghostly figures seen haunting a cave on the Shoshona Trail. Monte decides to turn the tables on a carny con-man who's running a fool's-gold swindle, leading to a chase around the carnival. A hero-worshipping kid goads deputy Jawbone Jeffers into a fight with Fierce Fred Pierce, twice his size and even meaner. Revenge; The Ghosts in the Night; Bronko Betsy; The Costly Bargain; The Hateful Wastrel; Old Slick; Jawbone Jeffers: Nero's Hero; The Prisoner of the Wheel Chair. Final issue published by Fawcett; Charlton took over with issue #83, published two years later in 1955. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. First issue published by Charlton. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Cavalry troops still divided over the end of the US Civil War must put aside their differences when Sioux forces attack border settlements. An animal-cruelty activist doesn't want perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes to put horseshoes on his horse. Monte finally tracks down the swift-fingered gang known as Safe-Crackers Unlimited, but they get the drop on him and capture him. Pony Boy Pedro... Knows His History!; Old Smokey; Two Flags At Dawn; Indian Sign Language; Gabby Hayes and the Unlucky Horseshoes; Imagine That!; Old Slick; Rodeo Gun-Trail; Gray Hawk: Waterfall of Doom; Lucky Day; Safe-Crackers Unlimited; Pinto Pete. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Edmond Good, Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte faces down the Mexican revolutionary El Leon and his followers, but beautiful gunrunner Carlotta Montez stops him in his tracks. When outlaw steals a fresh batch of Aunt Hester's fudge from the Bar Nothing Ranch, he arouses the ire of both Gabby Hayes and Aunt Hester herself. The range war between cattlemen and farmers comes down to the destruction of the Shanda Valley Dam, a plan that Monte must stop. Cactus Brain; The Gunrunners of Acatera; Dimwit Diddle; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: Fearless Fudgy; Grubstaker's Bargain; Gray Hawk: Wahita Mercy; Old Slick; The Building of Shanda Dam; Ten Gallon Tex; Molasses Mouth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Dick Kraus and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. In a multi-part story, Monte sets out to discover what is so important about the settlement at Wildwood that outlaws want to drive the settlers away from there. But the outlaws will stop at nothing, including a dynamite trap. Aunt Hester gets a ransom note that Gabby Hayes has been kidnapped, but nobody told Gabby. Chuckwagon Gus; The Unknown Bonanza; Sam the Sheriff; Sage-Brush; Peters the Politician; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes: The Alarming Adventure; Battle at the Cabin; Gray Hawk: Seeds of Friendship; Boarding House Brown; Old Slick; Gopher-Face; The Secret Is Told. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Edmond Good and Leonard Frank. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte must enter the place they call Typhoid Valley. A man framed for murder uses the Chebayo Land Rush to prove his innocence. Sometime sidekick Gabby Hayes gets to be King of the Mesa during a rodeo. Lamebrain Lem; Trader Tom; The Curse of Typhoid Valley; Molasses Mouth; Bronko Betsy; Gabby Hayes and the Rodeo Rascal; Quick On the Draw; Mule Ears; Monte Hale and the Chebayo Land Rush; Wagon Wheels; Old Slick; Rustler's Roundup. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Stan Campbell. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Bill Woolfolk, Stan Campbell and Clint Harmon. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. Monte finds his outlaw-bashing curtailed when a judge orders him not to fire his six-guns within city limits or risk violating the peace. Monte pretends to have turned outlaw and holds up stagecoaches to expose an insurance swindle. Plus a half-page of hilarity by the great Basil Wolverton, "How To Bite A Hot Dog Right." Wilbur the Waiter; How To Bite A Hot Dog Right; Monte Hale and His Peace Bond; Duel to the Death; Carey and Harry; Monte Hale, Outlaw; Riding For A Fall; Dusty: His Brother's Keeper; Happy Homer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Bill Woolfolk, Stan Campbell and Clint Harmon. Movie cowboy Monte Hale wanders the frontier, cleaning up the West one outlaw at a time. When the Ojibwe mount a siege on Fort McKechnie, Monte is the only man who can prevent a massacre. Gunslinger Ben Sweeney believes he is unbeatable because he has Wild Bill Hickok's gun, but then he meets Monte. The Old Timer is ready to hang up his guns now that the town has a real sheriff, but then word gets out that Red Benson is out of jail and looking for revenge. Molasses Mouth; Fort of Peril; Carpet Minded Carter; Hickok's Gun!; Unlucky Lucky; Shotgun Man; Riff and Raff; They Made History; Old Timer: The Last Stand; Jim Bridger. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.